Derek Pyle is a senior jazz studies major at UNT, where he plays lead trombone in the Two O’Clock Lab Band and U-Tubes Jazz Trombone Ensemble. After graduating from UNT, Derek plans on pursuing a Masters Degree in Studio Music and Jazz Performance at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.

Mylynka Kilgore Cardona holds a PhD in Transatlantic History from The University of Texas at Arlington. She has a background in historical cartography, Atlantic revolutions, and intercultural transfers. She is currently a map curator at the Texas General Land Office, Archives and Records Division in Austin.

Paul Christensen and his wife Donna founded Omega Productions in March of 1973. The Company specializes in live concert television specials, as well as live concert CD recordings. Omega also provides live event production and consulting services to the Entertainment and Sports Industries.

Jean Ann Cantore is editor of Texas Techsan magazine at the Texas Tech Alumni Association. For the past 19 years, she has worked on the magazine, but prior to that position, she ran a writing center for engineering students and served as a development officer at Texas Tech.

Texas A&M University Press will publish Rusty Williams’s The Red River Bridge War: A Texas Oklahoma Border Battle in June 2016. Rusty is also the author of My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans (University Press of Kentucky) and Historic Photos of Dallas in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s (Turner Publishing).

We are pleased to announce a Digital Frontiers Webinar with K. J. Rawson: Building the Digital Transgender Archive | Friday, April 1, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
In this Digital Frontiers Webinar, learn about a project will dramatically improve access to transgender history by creating a website that functions as a centralized hub for transgender historical materials.

UNT Special Collections will be hosting Revealing Hidden Collections: A Joint Symposium with Texas A&M and UNT Libraries with presentations by Anton duPlessis, Curator of the Colonial Mexican Collection at Texas A&M, Jaime Janda, Project Archivist for UNT, and Morgan Gieringer, Head of Special Collections at UNT.